It's a beauty.
Having little laboratory/classroom samples of jadeite,serpentine and nephrite in your kit might not be a bad idea (unless it aint affordable ?).
I'm with you Chas-gets a bit freaky when all you hear is crickets after a share -as in OOPS !
Thanks fiends-I'm one extremely lucky guy !
Too true Bron-To have never had even a drop,what would life have been ? Humans though have been finding ways of escaping reality for millennia.
Yep-verily 'gotten' is still in common usage stateside . Tantalus is derived from the cursed King Tantalus in Greek Mythology.
Our member @verybrad is a great place to start.
Ditto Ruth-Some items are so rare and arcane there's no audience for them but one or two-but they're still an amazing item.
Don't forget the WPA guys-'Art For The Masses', it just takes turning off the tube 2 minutes a day.It's a stretch,but aerobicize your brain.
I was just studying the superb Bauhaus- trained ceramicists Marguerite Wildenhain last night. She passed in 1985 and I lived roughly 10 miles from...
Chip & Dale ? Real Chipster pieces are rare as brontosaurus choppers-a true Chip made at Thos Chippendale's workshop's kinda like a flake off the...
Nice Tiki piece-This would be Nanook of the South as opposed to- https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanook_of_the_North Could be some hipster was...
I think from a quick evaluation it's a fine study of a mature woman in her 40's early 50's done with a fair amount of sensitivity. Lots of decent...
Would it be silver or plate ? Either way- blasted handsome article-well done Mar !
Bronwen nailed it-there's a gasogene at 221 B Baker St.You can usually find them on Ebay,they made quite a few of them into lamp bases.
Really nice Marote.
Thanks for the congrats (Anniversary) and the lamp's definitely got 'over the top' exuberance. I'm calling it 'Wh***house Gyp** Boho Chic ' !
There's a vid of the last living automata Japanese master demonstrating a Samurai (?) Archer shooting tiny arrows-it's amazing .
Today's our 46th Anniversary-Rib Eye and a bottle of Pinot my Sister's tiny California vineyard produced !
Thanks for all the feedback. I was stunned they could even be in the same room together ! It's like the base lives in JP Morgan's manse on 5th Ave...
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